"You go far astray, Don, when you insist on taking personally my every satirical comment on this thread when I am speaking about the various silly human foibles that amuse or annoy me as I observe society percolating around me...but if you are bent on doing so and imagining that my comments are all directed specifically at YOU, I hardly see how I could ever convince you that I intended otherwise."

You flatter yourself, Little Hawk. I don't take anything you say personally because you don't know me at all (although the above quote indicates that you egotistically assume you do), and you have generally indicated that you don't really grasp much of what I'm saying. Among other things, for someone who has been dubbed "a master of irony," it's kind of funny the way you don't recognize irony when you read it. And as far as your "satire" is concerned, you'd undoubtedly get a much better response from your dachshunds and your imaginary chimp.

It's a bit hard to believe that you didn't intend your barbs personally when you kept mentioning my name throughout your post. But as they say, I consider the source.

No, Little Hawk, not only do I not take what you say personally, but considering you ever-increasing penchant for descending into the abyss of mindless frivolity, I find it increasingly difficult to take anything you say seriously.

Don Firth